Funding search · EIN 131656610 · College Park, MD

American Physical Society

Name: American Physical Society grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

93
grants reported: $4.3M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,515
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

awards travel participant stipends award prize prizes outreach

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Florida International University1 grant · $242,194
University of Maryland1 grant · $234,598
Wested1 grant · $222,817
University of Maryland1 grant · $202,536
American Mathematical Society1 grant · $195,167
Florida International University2 grants · $184,899
American Geophysical Union1 grant · $175,538
Texas a&M University - Commerce1 grant · $126,105
Materials Research Society1 grant · $124,235
Board of Regents - Univ of Wi Madison1 grant · $122,448

Giving over time

$418,388

2022

$2.1M

2023

$1.7M

2024

Grant history

All 93 reported grants, largest first.

$242,194
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$234,598
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$222,817
Wested · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Sub Awards
$202,536
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2024
Programs - Sub Awards
$195,167
American Mathematical Society · Providence, RI · 2024
Sub Awards
$175,538
American Geophysical Union · Washington, DC · 2023
Sub awards
$156,137
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2024
Sub Awards
$126,105
Texas a&M University - Commerce · Commerce, TX · 2023
Sub awards
$124,235
Materials Research Society · Warrendale, PA · 2023
Sub awards
$122,448
Board of Regents - Univ of Wi Madison · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Sub Awards
$105,183
University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$104,913
Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Worchester, MA · 2023
Sub awards
$90,140
Carleton College · Northfield, MN · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$88,832
Wested · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Sub awards
$86,106
Carleton College · Northfield, MN · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$78,321
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$78,202
American Astronomical Society · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub Awards
$70,785
Board 0f Regents - Univ of Wisconsin · Madison, WI · 2023
Sub awards
$68,385
University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2024
Programs - Sub Awards
$62,936
The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$57,561
University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$55,791
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$55,000
Board of Trustees of the Stanford Univ · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$54,094
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Sub Awards
$51,677
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY · 2024
Sub Awards
$50,724
University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2024
Sub Awards
$45,459
American Astronomical Society · Washington, DC · 2023
Sub awards
$45,000
Government of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC · 2023
Prize & award stipends
$45,000
Towson University · Towson, MD · 2023
Prize & award stipends
$45,000
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
Prize & award stipends
$45,000
State University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2022
Prize & Award Stipends
$45,000
University of California- Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2022
Prize & Award Stipends
$44,799
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2023
Sub awards
$40,767
University of San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$36,292
California State University · San Marcos, CA · 2023
Programs-sub awards
$33,372
Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$33,000
American Chemical Society · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub Awards
$32,894
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$31,929
Trustees of Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$31,500
Montana State University · Bozeman, MT · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$29,155
Texas a&M University · Corpus Christi, TX · 2023
Sub awards
$28,762
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$27,688
New Mexico Inst Mining & Tech · Socorro, NM · 2023
Sub awards
$27,600
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$26,250
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2022
Prize & Award Stipends
$26,000
University of California - Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2023
Prize & award stipends
$25,515
St Mary'S College of Maryland · St Marys City, MD · 2023
Sub awards
$25,000
Univ Enterprises Corperation at Ca State Univ · San Bernardino, CA · 2023
Sub awards
$24,517
West Virginia University Research Corporation · Morgantown, WV · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$22,500
University of Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2024
Prizes & Awards - Stipends
$20,682
American Geophysical Union · Washington, DC · 2024
Sub Awards
$19,084
California State University · San Marcos, CA · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$18,705
Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2024
Sub Awards
$18,099
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$17,839
University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2023
Travel-participant support
$17,322
Materials Research Society · Warrendale, PA · 2024
Sub Awards
$16,863
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
Travel-participant support
$16,697
Auburn University · Auburn, AL · 2023
Travel-participant support
$16,664
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Travel-participant support
$16,616
Lewis University · Romeoville, IL · 2023
Sub awards
$16,266
Missouri University of Science & Technology · Rolla, MO · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$16,024
University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$15,957
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$15,857
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
Travel-participant support
$15,226
Sodexo · Chicago, IL · 2023
Travel-participant support
$15,000
Regents of the Univ of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
Prize & Award Stipends
$14,900
The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Travel-participant support
$14,845
The University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$14,186
Texas Christian University · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
Travel-participant support
$13,726
State University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
Travel-participant support
$13,650
West Point Association of Graduates · West Point, NY · 2024
Travel - Participant Support
$12,498
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Travel-participant support
$12,178
University California Merced · Merced, CA · 2023
Travel-participant support
$12,100
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Travel-participant support
$11,296
University of Illinois - Urbana · Urbana, IL · 2023
Travel-participant support
$10,000
Committee of Concerned Scientists · Mountainhome, PA · 2024
Prizes & Awards - Stipends
$9,966
Board of Regents Univ of Wisconsin System · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Sub awards
$9,866
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Sub Awards
$8,400
Drew University · Madison, NJ · 2024
Sub Awards
$8,400
Marietta College · Marietta, OH · 2024
Sub Awards
$8,400
Weber State University · Ogden, UT · 2024
Sub Awards
$8,284
American Association of Physics Teachers · College Park, MD · 2023
Sub awards
$7,990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Sub awards
$7,789
University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Sub awards
$7,560
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Programs - Sub Awards
$6,000
Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Prizes & Awards - Receipient Travel
$6,000
Harvey Mudd College · Claremont, CA · 2024
Prizes & Awards - Stipends
$6,000
Trustees of Amherst College · Amherst, MA · 2024
Prizes & Awards - Stipends
$6,000
University of Massachusetts Boston · Shrewsbury, MA · 2022
Prize & Award Stipends
$5,666
New Mexico State University · Las Cruces, NM · 2023
Programs-outreach grants
$5,553
University of Kansas · Lawrence, KS · 2023
Sub awards
$5,514
The Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Travel - Participant Support
$5,007
Appalachian State University · Boone, NC · 2023
Sub awards

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.